During a cold, dark evening in December, a man is attempting to find some peace
             from the remembrance of his lost love, Lenore, by reading volumes of "forgotten lore."
             Has he begins to sleep, he hears a knock at the door. Believing that he is dreaming he
             hesitates to open the door, with ease he finally opens the door, to his dismay he sees only
             darkness. Into the darkness he can only mutter the word "Lenore." This is merely the
             beginning of the man's sadness for his "Lenore." Upon closing the door, another knock is
             immediately heard from the chamber's window. The man throws open the shutter and
             window, and in steps a large, beautiful raven, which immediately posts itself on the bust
             of Athena, a Greek Goddess, above the entrance of the room.
             The raven itself implies a symbol of torture, mainly self-inflicted torture, from the
             man over his lost love, Lenore. The Raven could also be considered to be a Mirage due to
             the pain he is enduring over the death of Lenore. Another cause to his hallucination can
             be found in the first line of the poem, where he is, "weak and weary." Meaning he was in
             a state of sleep, which could quite possibly make the encounter with the knocking at the
             door and the raven at the window a state of imagination. Thoughts are running through
             his head and it is safe to say that he is frightening himself more than the situation
             provides at this point. He is in a state of frightened slumber, a horrible nightmare that he
             At one point in the poem the man tries to calm himself from all that is happening
             to him. He says he has to still the beating of his heart by repeating outside the door, "Tis
             some visitor entreating at my chamber door." A person's mind is the most powerful tool
             of one's imagination, and he has no control ove
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